The Effectiveness of Clustering Technique on Writing Recount text at SMPN 55 Surabaya

Among the skills of English Lesson, writing is the most difficult one. Some people are good in speaking English, but they may face difficulties in writing on a paper. Writing requires many aspects, such as; background knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation, coherence, etc. In writing, students would face several problems such as; limited vocabularies, difficulty in organizing ideas, no ideas to write about, no motivation to write and lack of confidence in grammar. The same thing happens to students of eighth grade SMPN 55 Surabaya. Reffering to those problems, teaching technique are needed in teaching and learning process in order to make teaching and learning activity more fun and interesting. Here, the researcher tries to use of clustering technique to teach the students to writing recount text and it is not effective technique in helping students to get idea in writing. The objective of the research is to describe and find out the use of clustering technique in writing recount text in eighth grade students in SMPN 55 Surabaya. The research design applied in this study was a collaborative classroom action research. It meant that the writer collaborated with the English teacher of SMPN 55 Surabaya in doing this research. This study was conducted by following Kurt Lewin model of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting procedure. The data were gathered through Observation, test with pretest and posttest. The results of the study show that by doing clustering technique is not effective, the students’ ability in writing recount text improve just 2% in average from experimental class and control class. It can be proved from the increasing score in writing recount text. And this technique will be effective if the average from students score increase from 2% to 5%